# The Celebrity Death Pool 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523 "2010-12-01T09:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/101 "2010-12-05T16:51:38Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Eli Wallach > Clint Eastwood > Maggie Smith > Judi Dench 1934 - same month and year as Smith above > Sean Connery > Betty White > Jimmy Carter > Keith Richards > Barbara Bush > Michael Vick (mob hit/animal welfare advocates hit) > Bill Wyman > Jerry LEE Lewis > [@Quasimodem](#): > > I think I’m one short, sorry > > Vladimir Gorbachev (? the guy who was Russian premier who had the Russian map on his forehead) Please repost all 13 as one list, but please leave off the parenthetical comments. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/102 "2010-12-05T16:57:18Z")
Okay, I will repost, but I broke one of your rules about parenthetical comments? Gotta go shopping but will get right on it when I return. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/103 "2010-12-05T17:00:30Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > leave it to a puzzle maven to come up with something that good. Ah, but some players 2011 lists gives you a clue towards their **2012** list. 😃 Yes. But then, I’m good through 2014. Let’s hope Betty White can make it until then. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/104 "2010-12-05T17:00:32Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Okay, I will repost, but I broke one of your rules about parenthetical comments? > > Gotta go shopping but will get right on it when I return. You can include as many comments as you like, but should also post a clean list. Please look at previous entries for examples. You’re also allowed up to 3 alternates in case one of your 13 kicks it before 00:00:01 1/1/11 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/105 "2010-12-05T20:33:28Z")
Eli Wallach Clint Eastwood Maggie Smith Judi Dench 1934 - same month and year as Smith above Sean Connery Betty White Jimmy Carter Keith Richards Barbara Bush Michael Vick mob hit/animal welfare advocates hit Bill Wyman Jerry LEE Lewis Mikhail Gorbachev who had a map of Russia on his forehead Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/106 "2010-12-05T20:41:07Z")
To save us all some hassle, here is **Quasi** ’s list in correct format: **Quasimodem’s 2011 Death Pool picks** Eli Wallach Clint Eastwood Maggie Smith Judi Dench Sean Connery Betty White Jimmy Carter Keith Richards Barbara Bush Michael Vick Bill Wyman Jerry Lee Lewis Mikhail Gorbachev ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/107 "2010-12-05T21:35:47Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > To save us all some hassle, here is **Quasi** ’s list in correct format: Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/108 "2010-12-05T21:37:01Z")
Here you go: Wilford Brimley Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi Kim Jong-Un John Demjanjuk Randy QUaid Gabriel Garcia Marquez Diego Maradona Kathy Bates Ken Griffey Sr. Patrick Swayze Billy Graham James Best (Roscoe Coltrane of Dukes of Hazzard) Ellen johnson Sirleaf ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/109 "2010-12-05T21:51:08Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi That jackass. I had him in 2009 when I thought he would be a hot pick, and also in 2010 when he was a semi-bandwagon pick, and now screw him! Screw him right in the ear! Of course, if I take him off my list this year, that will almost guarantee that this will be the year he actually scores. So to speak. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/110 "2010-12-05T22:35:43Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > Here you go: > > **Patrick Swayze** Unlike Voltaire, I don’t think Swayze can be picked after he has shuffled off this mortal coil. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/111 "2010-12-05T23:29:07Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Unlike Voltaire, I don’t think Swayze can be picked after he has shuffled off this mortal coil. Hmmm, did he actually die? (Checks) So he did . . . Let’s replace him with FW De Klerk. So that makes the list: Wilford Brimley Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi Kim Jong-Un John Demjanjuk Randy Quaid Gabriel Garcia Marquez Diego Maradona Kathy Bates Ken Griffey Sr. FW DeKlerk Billy Graham James Best (Roscoe Coltrane of Dukes of Hazzard) Ellen johnson Sirleaf ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/112 "2010-12-05T23:29:50Z")
So I made the list according to your instructions, I repeated it and left out the parentheses, but left my comments because you stated in your rules that it was okay to be entertaining, and it’s STILL not right, and I’m causing you “hassle”? Jesus, I must be more stupid than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/113 "2010-12-05T23:42:43Z")
**Quasi** , it’s not the literal parentheses, it’s any kind of parenthetical remark – he needs a version of the list that is names and nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/114 "2010-12-05T23:56:42Z")
a lot of people post the list twice - once, with all sorts of comments and/or snarks, and then again, unadorned, so that **amarone** can copy and paste it easily. He needs to do this to keep score, and to keep track of those who kick off. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/115 "2010-12-06T00:42:59Z")
Didn’t mean anything by “hassle”; sorry to have caused offense. ---
**Author:** ![Wallet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@Wallet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallet)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/116 "2010-12-06T01:19:29Z")
Mostly cut and paste from 2010 list - does “Evil” count as a theme? A list of evilness (IMO): Omar al-Bashir - President of Sudan Kim Jong-Il - Supreme Leader of N.Korea Sayyid Ali Khamenei - Supreme Leader of Iran Hu Jintao - Paramount Leader People’s Republic of China King Abdullah - King Saudi Arabia Than Shwe - head of state of Myanmar (Burma) Robert Mugabe - President Zimbabwe Islam Karimov - President of Uzbekistan Muammar al-Qaddafi - leader of Libya Bashar al-Assad - President Syrian Arab Republic Hugo Chavez - President Venezuela Osama bin Laden Isayas Afewerki - leader Eritrea Alternates: Teodoro Obiang Nguema - leader Equatorial Guinea Dick Cheney Plain List: Omar al-Bashir Kim Jong-Il Sayyid Ali Khamenei Hu Jintao King Abdullah Than Shwe Robert Mugabe Islam Karimov Muammar al-Qaddafi Bashar al-Assad Hugo Chavez Osama bin Laden Isayas Afewerki Alternates: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Dick Cheney ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/117 "2010-12-06T02:13:45Z")
Ben Roethlisberger Betty Ford Lindsay Lohan Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Joe Paterno Bobby Bowden Fidel Castro Hugo Chavez Mikhail Gorbachev Raul H. Castro \*former Arizona governor, not the Cuban political figure Dolph Schayes Muhammad Ali Margaret Thatcher ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/118 "2010-12-06T02:14:01Z")
2011 Death Pool Dick Cheney Zsa Zsa Gabor Ariel Sharon Gabriel Garcia Marquez Andy Whitfield Fidel Castro Michael Douglas George H. W. Bush Ursula LeGuin George Jones Chuck Berry Christopher Hitchens Bruno Sammartino I played around with several themes and decided on “old and/or sick” as the one I would go with. In the end, I doubt I will have any unique picks. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/119 "2010-12-06T03:13:17Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > a lot of people post the list twice - once, with all sorts of comments and/or snarks, and then again, unadorned, so that **amarone** can copy and paste it easily. He needs to do this to keep score, and to keep track of those who kick off. That’s right - it takes me about 20 seconds to process a plain list. Every line I have to edit adds 10 seconds to that. That may not seem like much, but with about 170 lists, it can add up. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523/120 "2010-12-06T03:14:56Z")
> [@Wallet](#): > > Mostly cut and paste from 2010 list - does “Evil” count as a theme? Call it “evil leaders” and yes, I’ll allow it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2011/562523.md?page=7)